been active in Yankee for over 15 years. During this time, she has
contributed countless hours organizing, running, and mentoring various
levels of a particular womens club team. She has worked diligently over
the years to become an extremely solid and valuable team player, and her
positive attitude, good humor, and mental toughness make her a particularly
supportive teammate.
In addition to supporting her own teammates, she is always kind,
accommodating, and encouraging to opponents in her acknowledgment of good
volleys and positive attitudes on the other side of the net. She is
gracious in victory as well as in defeat, although her competitive nature
does shine through when she gives you the congratulatory hug for your win,
but promises, "Until next time..."
It is though diligent efforts and attitudes similar to hers that keeps the
Yankee family growing at all levels.
We are very proud to present Darcy Duke as the 2008 female recipient of the
Rick Pierce Sportsmanship Award.
This years male Rick Pierce recipient has played many roles over the years
in promoting volleyball and Yankee throughout New England. As a player, he
is a noble competitor, as well as great fun to play with or against. He has
his own special brand of humor that helps to ease the most intense of
moments.
He is probably known just as well for his work off the court. For the last
several years, he has been tireless in his efforts at photographing various
teams and players at Nationals, creating training videos for refereeing and
generally making himself useful to Yankee and the volleyball community on a
whole. Most importantly, he was the brain-child behind the creation of
something that I know hundreds of us feel we could not live without -- the
Boston Area Volleyball Players Listserve fondly know as the BAVP.
For all this and more, we are very proud to present Joshua Wachs the 2008
male recipient of the Rick Pierce Sportsmanship Award.
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